Quotes About Soul-searching

One of my problems is to find the self.

It's good to explore your darkness.

I am not, by nature, an explorer or an adventurer.

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.

Orthodox Judaism does not place undue emphasis on hellfire and damnation, nor are children specially pressured to search their souls for sin. But the priorities of a cheder education were anything but material. Read, read, read. Study, study, study. These were the objectives of school — and of life itself.

Abandon the search for God and the creation and other matters of a similar sort. Look for him by taking yourself as the starting point. Learn who it is within you who makes everything his own and says, "My God, my mind, my thought, my soul, my body." Learn the sources of sorrow, joy, love, hate… . If you carefully investigate these matters you will find him in yourself.

But, ultimately, the answers you are seeking already lie deep within your heart.

There is nowhere else to look.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.

When for whatever reason, men and women fail to transcend themselves by means of worship good works and spiritual exercises they are apt to resort to religion's chemical surrogates.

Who are you?" he whispered.

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

A thousand questions hit my eyes from the inside.

Whenever I visit my mother I feel I am turning into Emily Brontë, my lonely life around me like a moor, my ungainly body stumping over the mud flats with a look of transformation that dies when I come into the kitchen door. What meat is it, Emily, we need?

We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.

You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.

You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.

I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.

Mi-am cucerit, puÅ£in câte puÅ£in, teritoriul interior care urma s? fie al meu. Mi-am cerut, unul dup? altul, întinsurile de mlaÅŸtin? în care nu mai r?m?sese nimic din mine. Åži am scos la iveal? fiinÅ£a mea infinit?, dar a trebuit s? m? scot pe mine din mine cu forcepsul". - Fernando Pessoa, Cartea neliniÅŸtirii